Minister for Sport and Civil Society

Not to be confused with Minister for Civil Society.

The minister for sport and civil society was a junior minister in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport of the United Kingdom government, with responsibility for sport and Civil Society in England. In 2020, the role merged with that of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Arts, Heritage and Tourism to become Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Tourism, Heritage and Civil Society.

The post covered sport as well as tourism and heritage. The sports minister has at various times previously reported to the Department of National Heritage, the Department of Education and Science and the Department of the Environment.

Sport is a devolved matter in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland resting with the corresponding ministers in the Scottish Government, Welsh Government and the Northern Ireland Executive, although when the Northern Ireland Assembly was suspended, responsibility went to the Northern Ireland Office.

Under Margaret Thatcher the office was known as Under-Secretary of State for Sport.

Current responsibilities

• Sport
• Gambling
• Horse racing
• Office for Civil Society
• The National Lottery and society lotteries
• Cross-government work on loneliness

Ministers for Sport

Name		Portrait	Term of office		Political party	Prime Minister
	Denis Howell		1964	1970	Labour		Wilson
	Eldon Griffiths		1970	1974	Conservative		Heath
	Denis Howell		1974	1979	Labour		Wilson Callaghan
	Hector Monro		1979	1981	Conservative		Thatcher I
	Neil Macfarlane		1981	1985	Conservative		Thatcher I Thatcher II
	Richard Tracey		1985	1987	Conservative		Thatcher II
	Colin Moynihan		1987	1990	Conservative		Thatcher II
	Robert Atkins		1990	1992	Conservative		Major I
	Robert Key		1992	1993	Conservative		Major II
	Iain Sproat		1993	1997	Conservative
	Tony Banks		1997	1999	Labour		Blair I
	Kate Hoey		1999	2001	Labour
	Richard Caborn		2001	2007	Labour		Blair II Blair III
	Gerry Sutcliffe		2007	2010	Labour		Brown
	Hugh Robertson		2010	2013	Conservative		Cameron-Clegg
	Helen Grant		2013	2015	Conservative
	Tracey Crouch		May 2015	2018	Conservative		Cameron II
							May I
							May II
	Mims Davies		2018	2019	Conservative
	Nigel Adams		2019	2020	Conservative		Johnson I
							Johnson II
	Nigel Huddleston Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport, Tourism and Heritage		2020	2022	Conservative

References

• Past Ministers for Sport (PDF), Department for Culture, Media and Sport